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Where the Web was born. Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. Tim Berners-Lee, pictured at CERN (Image: CERN)
6. Juli 2019 · Olds invented the basic concept of the assembly line and started the Detroit area automobile industry. He first began making steam and gasoline engines with his father, Pliny Fisk Olds, in Lansing, Michigan in 1885. Olds designed his first steam-powered car in 1887. In 1899, with a growing experience of gasoline engines, Olds moved to Detroit to start the Olds Motor Works, and produce low ...
11. Mai 2024 · Morse Code, either of two systems for representing letters of the alphabet, numerals, and punctuation marks by arranging dots, dashes, and spaces. The codes, invented Samuel F.B. Morse and a conference of European nations, are transmitted as electrical pulses of varied lengths or analogous mechanical or visual signals.
19. Apr. 2024 · Science fiction is a form of fiction that deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals. The term ‘science fiction’ was popularized, if not invented, in the 1920s by one of the genre’s principal advocates, the American publisher Hugo Gernsback.
The emergence of science fiction became most evident in the West, where the social transformations caused by the Industrial Revolution first led writers to extrapolate the future impact of technology. The clearest precursor, however, was the 17th-century author Cyrano de Bergerac, who wrote about a voyager’s trip to and expulsion from the Moon.
21. Mai 2013 · Velcro, a popular brand of hook-and-loop binding, was inspired by burrs that stuck to clothing and fur. NASA did not invent it, but the space agency helped popularize it.
9. Apr. 2021 · The story behind COVID-19 vaccines. Anthony S. Fauci Authors Info & Affiliations. Science. 9 Apr 2021. Vol 372, Issue 6538. p. 109. DOI: 10.1126/science.abi8397. PHOTO: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Amid the staggering amount of suffering and death during this historic pandemic of COVID-19, a remarkable success story ...
